but louisa mccord is praised by politicians in south carolina. the greinke sisters are run out of the state, basically, and end up in philadelphia. and mary chestnut pours her heart out in a private diary that remains obscure and unknown until the late 20th century. so, are there any questions or comments about the pro slavery argument before we change topics? okay. well, let's talk about slavery, shall we. let's talk about the subject of slavery. there is a large scholarship on this topic. many, many, many books have been written about the subject of slavery. how many of you took history 151? okay. and did you discuss slavery in that course? 151? okay. good. occasionally i have students who say they took history 151 and then slavery got skipped over. i'm glad that hasn't happened. okay. let's paint in broad strokes a picture of the institution. this institution that is being attacked by abolitionists and defended by pro slavery figures. slavery is very old. it goes back to the ancient greek and romans, ancient egyptians, it's older than the unit

right between the cities charlottesville and richmond we're about ten miles outside of the town of louisa a very rural environment. there are one hundred people living in twelfth's there are ninety four adults and thirteen children. twelfth's was started in one nine hundred sixty seven and has been a robust community ever since then and we have spawned other communities using our systems we helped start east when community in this story we helped start acorn community. just down the road and a lot of other communities have adopted our systems and adopted our practices so we develop these robust systems for keeping people equal and equally empowered. i think. they all said well. i don't feel the constant like advertisements and people to get me by. walking around with bunch of strangers who don't want to look you in the eye and also like you know my resource of things like a lot of it. looks like a better way for me to live but i'm afraid of living a life so. things. like the work is so much more fulfilling than the work i did in the city. i worked a lot of. crappy jobs for food service. c

. >> i had a huge advantage that nobody else had except louisa adams. i had been there so often. having been there with my father-in-law president bush that is really is a home and i knew bar had made it into a home. our little girls when they were 7, when their grandfather was president, could slide down the ramp from the conservatory, the solarium, that you saw on several of the photos earlier, the wooden ramp, slide down on that on their bottom or make the running jump to the one big antique bed that was so tall that it required steps to get into, but barbara and jenna could run and jump. and sasha and malia were shown all those tricks from their childhood. i really knew. and because i knew there was this really magnificent collection of white house furniture, didn't move anything with us. we had just moved into our ranch house which is where all of our furniture went. so i brought one chest of drawers for my dressing room that was george's grandmother's, i just have that there, just to remember her, and then brought some of our books, a few of our books, also knew we would ge

and initially, the true heroes in response, as we saw in tusk louisa and saw in newark, new jersey, recently. saw in upstate new york and vermont are the first responders. the police officers, the paramedics, the e.m.t.'s and nurses and doctors and neighbors helping neighbors. talked to a woman in tennessee last year during the floods in nashville, and it was this home that was completely flooded. actually it was a week later, and it was being mucked out or cleaned out by again, lutherans and another, i forget the other name of the other faith-based group. there were two groups cleaning up her front home and she's sitting out this 86-year-old woman saying all these nice people are helping me clean out literally what's left of their home and she said i wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my neighbor that broke my front window out and pulled me out and saved her life. he was a nice young man, a 63-year-old neighbor, the nice young man that saved her life. [laughter] >> but it's neighbors helping neighbors. those are the heroes. those are the people that we need to make sure that they are p

in one example, louisa mcchord of columbia, south carolina, found secession activities in the state just too interesting to ignore. before lincoln's election she actually could care less about politics. she said absolutely nothing about it in her writings. after the election as columbians celebrated the state's decision to secede, she joined the bevy of political activity. she along with many of her piers actually donned blue badges with the palmetto emblem to show their support for south carolina. the others in the upper south, of course, who waited until after events at fort sumpter to secede, also we see a lot of young women in those areas being very expressive about their support for secession. chloely tyler whittle of norfolk, virginia, believed her state had no recourse, but to leave the union after ft. sumpter. and, of course, when she heard about lincoln's request for 75,000 troops, she became even more upset. she wrote in her diary that the thought was appalling. when she confirmed the troops would be down in the south, so wrote in one of her entries, she wrote "secession, immed

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. >>> louisa hodge reports from los angeles. >> reporter: there is an empty boat spot at king harbor where a 37-foot hunter sailboat, known as the agean, once docked. >> he keep its in pristine shape. and it has all of the features i would think anyone would want in a boat like that, to do a race like that. >> reporter: but this boat, which was part of a 125-mile race, from newport beach to ensenada, never made it to the finish line. on sunday, they found the boat crashed into pieces south of san diego. three crewmembers did not survive the crash. the fourth was reported missing. >> it's weird. i just looked everything up, you know, as soon as i heard about it. i looked it up on the internet and it's already there. and just to see a picture of that boat -- it's just kind of -- it's chilling. it's just weird. yeah. because i was just talking to him, right before he left. he was excited. >> reporter: darren rick docked his boat a few yards away from the agean. he said he's known the owner, theo, for years, and calls him an experienced sailor. >> not only is he experienced. but they won

the money raised from the may 20th show will go to help rebuild the louisa county high school which took the damage that you're seeing on the tape right there. we now know of one confirmed winner for sure of the world record megamillions jackpot. somebody holding a ticket with all the right numbers came forward today in kansas but we still know almost nothing about them. >> now the news that all of us have been waiting for. we have our winner. kansas law allows the person to remain anonymous. that person has chosen that option. the person had good legal counsel, good financial advisers, and the person looks forward to retirement. >> the ticket in kansas is one of three that matched the winning numbers. each of them are worth about $218 million or about $157 million after taxes. not bad. tlae meantime that baltimore woman who says she bought the winning ticket in maryland? well, she's changed her story. now she says she actually lost it. on monday merland wilson told news 4 that she hid the winning ticket in a safe place. then she announced the ticket was stashed inside the mcdonald's res

the money raised from the may 20th show will help rebuild the louisa county high school. >>> megapopcki minaj begins a world tour this year. if that's not enough her brand new album "pink friday" is already number one on i-tunes. >> one of the songs on that cd is entitled "right by my side" and nicki performed it on the "today" show this morning. here's a listen. ♪ oh, i -- i am not living life -- i'm not living right i'm not living if air not by my side ♪ ♪ i'm not living right i'm not living if you're not by my side ♪ >> it's catchy, a good one to get in your head on a friday. nicki also grabs attention for her zany, bright, neon colored outfits but today said she told her stylist she wanted to wear all black. go figure. she was dialing it back for the "today" show. >>> rumors are swirling about a possible romance between reality tv star kim kardashian and rapper kanye west. >> the two stars have allegedly been spotted together quite a bit in the past few days and kardashian isn't quite denying the rumors. >> the reality star sat down for an interview with ann curry on the "today"